Dear Colleagues,
I hope your academic year is off to a great start. I am delighted to share that you can now sign up for the new, no-cost bundle of supercomputing resources — the U-M Research Computing Package, provided by Information and Technology Services — which was announced on June 29.
Beginning today, university researchers on all campuses have access to a base allocation for high-performance computing and research storage services, at no cost. Allocations include:
- 80,000 CPU hours of high-performance computing
- 10 TB of high-performance storage
- 100 TB of archival storage
- Additional allocations for instruction and coursework
These base allocations will meet the needs of approximately 75 percent of current high-performance computing users and 90 percent of current research storage users. Please visit ITS’s Advanced Research Computing website to learn more and sign up to receive the allocation. To ensure that we can best meet your needs, it is important that researchers sign up directly for the allocations. It is not possible at this time to sign up on behalf of someone else.
Ph.D. students may qualify for their own UMRCP resources depending on who is overseeing their research and their advisor relationship. Students should consult with their Ph.D. program administrator to determine their eligibility.
Undergraduate and Masters students do not currently qualify for their own UMRCP, but they can be added as users or administrators of another person’s UMRCP. Students can also access other ITS programs such as Great Lakes for Course Accounts, and Student Teams.
Services that are needed beyond the base allocation provided by the UMRCP are available at significantly reduced rates (the average rate reduction is 40 percent). The rates are applied automatically for all researchers on the Ann Arbor, Dearborn, Flint, and Michigan Medicine campuses, and no further action is needed.
Training offerings
- ARC leadership will host office hours on Sept. 2, Sept. 8, and Sept. 30, and they are happy to schedule time with individual units if another day/time is needed.
- Virtual office hours called CoderSpaces are available for customers to get hands-on help with the UMRCP, or any other compute or storage questions.
- ARC offers a number of training sessions geared for researchers on how to use ARC services. Course descriptions and registration information are available on the Teaching and Technology Collaborative website.
Additional details are described on the Advanced Research Computing website.
We are here to serve and support you. I invite you to reach out to me directly any time I can be of assistance.
Best regards,
Ravi
Ravi Pendse PhD
Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
University of Michigan
[email protected]